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No, 586,177. Patented July 13,1897.

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JOHN H. GRAPES, OF OLARKSBURG, VEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO SARAH VIRGINIA LANG,

OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 586,177, dated July 13, 1897.

Application filed August 26, 1896.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. GRAPES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Olarksburg, in the county of Harrison and State of Test Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in clothes-pins, the 011- ject of the same being to provide a device for attaching clothes to a clothesline which is itself permanently connected to the line.

The invention consists of a clothes-pin made of a single piece of stiff galvanized iron, steel, copper, or brass wire which will not rust, the same being bent at its middle point, forming double strands which have a loop at one end, which surrounds the clothes-line, the outer ends of said wire being bent clownwardly, rearwardly, and upwardly, forming inclined or V-shaped portions, between which the clothes are clamped to the line.

The invent-ion also consists of certain details of constructiomwhich will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings forming part of this spccification, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a clothes-line, showing a plurality of my improved pins applied thereto in operative positions. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of the pins. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4: is an end view.

Like reference-numerals indicate like parts in the different views.

My improved elothes-pin 1 is constructed of a single piece of galvanized iron, steel, copper, or brass wire, bent at its middle point, as shown at 2, forming parallel strands 3 3, which are bent downwardly, rearwardly, and upwardly at their outer ends, the extreme, ends of said wires bearing against the outer Serial No. 604,015. (No model.)

surfaces of the straight parallel portions of said strands. At a point adjacent to the bend 2 the strands 3 3 are bent downwardly, forming a loop 4, through which the clothes-line passes. The space between the straight portions of the strands 3 3 is slightly narrower than the thickness of the clothes-line 5, so that when the pins 1 are applied to the line with the latter passing through the loops at the said pins are permanently held in place. U

When it is desired to attach clothes to the line 5, the rear ends of the pins are elevated and a fold of material inserted upon the top of the line and the pin forced downwardly around the line 5, clamping the clothes to the line between the V-shaped portions of the bent ends of said wires. A reverse operation to that just described will permit the removal of the clothes.

A elothespin constructed as heretofore described and as herein illustrated is just as cheap as the common wooden pin now in use, is much more durable in that it will not break, and cannot become lost, because of the fact that it is permanently attached to the clothesline.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A clothes-pin made of a single strip of wire bent at its middle point, forming a loop which lies at right angles to the main part of said pin through which the elothesline is adapted to pass, the outer ends of said pin being bent downwardly, rearwardly and upwardly formin g \l-shaped clamping ends, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. GRAPES.

Witnesses W. Soorr, A. S. LONG. 

